Collar-shaper



E. LICHTENSTEIN (NOW BY JUDICIAL CHANGE OF NAME E. LANE). COLLAR SHAPER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 16. 1917.

1,355,557. Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

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7 UNITED STATES PATENT -OFFICE EDWIN LICHTENSTEIN, (NOW BY JUDICIAL CHANGE OF NAME EDWIN NEW YORK, N. Y. I 7

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CQLLAR-SHAPER.

TO aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN LIOHTENSTEIN,

citizen of the United States, residing atNew York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Shapers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collar shapers or ironers, and more particularly to devices for shaping collars of the turn-down variety. The object of the invention is to provide an improved device for shaping turn-down collars by the traveling movement of an ironing or shaping member along the folded edges of the collar, and which device is so .can be made and sold at low cost and can be readily manipulated by the operator.

Further objects of the invention are in part obvious and in part will appear more in detail as hereinafter set forth.

The invention comprises the collar shaper hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, which represent one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view showing the ironing member in idle position, the form being arranged to receive the collar; Fig. 2 is in part a side elevation, and in part a cross section on the line 22 Fig. 1, showing the ironing member in operating engagement with the form; and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 3-3 Fig.1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a suitable support for the device, such as a table or the like, which is provided with an opening to receive the depending tubular portion 2 of a casing or jacket whose upper portion 3 rests upon the support 1 and 15 provided at one side with a small guiding opening 1 whose purpose will appear.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t nt f, '12, Application filed October 16, 1917. 'Serial No. 196,836.

A. lVithin the tubular'member'2 and slidable vertically therein-is a tube'or sleeve 5 decally in the guiding opening land which opening permits the form to move vertically in the body but without rotation relative thereto.

10 represents the ironing member which may be a hollow casting of the usual form provided with an ironing recess 11 designed to cooperate with the upper edge of the form 7 and shape the collar. The ironing member is rotatable about the vertical axis of the tubes 2 and 5, which-axis is concentric with the form--7. To rotate the ironing member it is provided with the usual operating handle 12. 'Member 10 has a sleeve portion 13 supported by the horizontal tube 14: and secured thereto by the screws 15,

which also secure in place a horizontal extension 16 having a sleeve 17 upon the opposite closed'end of tube '14, whose front end is open to discharge heated or burning gas into the ironing member 10 for heating the same, or which may serve as a conduit for conducting lead wires to electrical heating units n said ironing member. Between the opposite ends ofthe pipe 14: is a hollow fitting 18 secured to the upper end of the tube 19, which passes down within the tube 5 and is provided below the lower end of the tubular member 2 with a collar 20 to prevent upward movement of the tube 19 and ironing member relativeto the support. Surrounding the tube 19 is a spiral compression spring 21 resting at its lower end upon a collar 22 within the tube 2 and at its. upper end bearing against the lower end of a sleeve 23 adjustablyv threaded into the base 6 and capable of being locked in adjusted position by the locking nut or ring 24. This sleeve 23 enables the pressure of the spring 21 tobe varied for increasing or diminishing the predetermined ironing'pressure.

Fitting 18 at one side is provided with a laterally extending projection 25 serving to ,supportla'roller or anti-friction member 26. V which travels along theupper surface of .a.

gaseous: fuel to the usual- Bunsen'mixer 33.

The gas can burn at this mixer to produce a stream of heated products of combustion for heating the iron 10. or can .burn at the mouth of the pipe 14', as will be readily understood. l

The collar to be shaped is applied tothe upper edge of the form 7 when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. l with the ironing member 10 at the gap 8. In this position theroller 26 rests upon the dwell andagainst the stop 30 of the cam and holds depressed asin Fig. 3' the collar receiving form. Nlhen the collar is applied, .the ironing member 10 is swung around in a clockwise direction Fig. 1, as indicated by the dotand dash line, Fig. 1. During this movement the roller 26 travels to and along v theinclined cam surface 28 thereby allowing'the collarholding form to rise tothe full line. position, Fig. 2, until it meets the ironing member 10, which prevents further upward movement of the collar holding form. During the. further motion of the ironing member around the vertical axisthe ironing motionthe ironing pressure the spring. 21 and canbe neither increased 7 is determined absolutely by the pressure of nor diminished by the pressure the operator applies to the handle 12. Consequently by properly adjusting the sleeve 23 to secure the desired and proper pressure the operator; is prevented from injuring the collars worked upon and must always apply to each collar the exact degree of pressure previously determined by the adjustment of the device. .7

What I claim is:---

. 1. A collar shaper, comprising ,an annular verticallymovable collar holding form member, a cooperating ironing member, said form member and said ironing member being relatively rotatable, yielding means for moving said form member vertically into engagement with saidironing member, and

. means actuated by one of said members for withdraws said form from the plane of 'movement of said ironing member.

3. A collar shapencomprlslng an annular vertically movable collar holding form, a cooperating ironing member rotatable in a horizontal plane and having an idle position, yielding means for moving said form vertically into engagement with said ironformand member whereby said member in moving 'to idle position withdraws said form fromv the plane of movement of said ironing member.

- 4. A collar shaper, comprising an annular vertically movable collar holding form, a

ing member, and cooperating means on said cooperating ironing member rotatable ina.

horizontal plane and having an idle position, yielding means for moving said form I vertically into engagement with said ironing member, cooperating means on said form and member whereby said memberin moving to idle position withdraws saidform from the plane of movement of said ironing member, and in moving away from idle position releases said ironing member 'for movement thereof toward sald ironing member.

-5.-A collar shaper comprising a. collar form, an iron, having an ironing portion gulded for movement in a fixedpath a por: tlon of which is eomcldent with said form and another portion of which is beyond the 7 same, means tending to yieldingly move said form into the path of said iron, and means carried by said iron for holding said form depressed when said iron is moving above the form into ironing position.

6, A collar shaper comprising a collar form, an iron having an ironing portion' guided for movement in a fixed path, a porand is the ironing range and another portion tion of which is coincident with said form 7 of which is beyond the form and is the idle range, means tending to yieldingly move said form into the path of said iron, and means controlled by said iron for holding said form depressed whenv said iron is moving from idle range to ironing range. I A collar shaper comprising a manually operable ironing member supported for movement in a curved path and held against movement out of said path, amovable collar holding form cooperating there- 7 with, means tending to move said form toward said path, and cooperating parts on said member and form for controlling the movement of said form. 7

8. collar shaper comprising an ironing memberhaving movement in a curved path andheld against movement out'of said path, a collar holding form cooperating therewith, meansfor producing yielding vertlcal movement of said form, cooperating parts on said member and form controlling said vertical movement, and means for varying the yielding tendency of said vertical lar holding member toward said path, a moving means. cam on one of said members and means 9. A collar shaper comprising an ironing carried by the other of said members and 110 member movable in a fixed path and held engaging said cam for controlling the against movement out of said path, a collar movement of said collar holding member. holding member cooperating therewith, In testimolfily whereof I affix my sivnature. means tending to yieldingly move said 001- DWIN LICHTENiS'fEIN. 

